Delta Air Lines Brings a Touch of Nollywood to the Air ...Popular Films Available Free of Charge on Flights from Nigeria

First it was
Hollywood, then Bollywood and now Delta Air Lines is bringing Nollywood to the
skies with Nigerian-made movies on board its flights.

The genre is
being rolled out across Delta’s inflight entertainment system Delta Studio and
will be complete in April. The first films to be shown will be Bambitious and A
Place Called Happy, with more titles coming later in the year. The movies will
be available on 339 aircraft flying both internationally and on U.S. domestic
routes, including Delta’s daily service between Lagos and Atlanta.

“As a global
airline, we listen to our international customers to shape our product and
services to offer what they want,” said Bobby Bryan, Delta’s Commercial
Director for East and West Africa. “We already offer African menus and the
introduction of Nollywood films shows our commitment to this region and
offering local customers popular local entertainment.”

Ayo Makun,
producer and lead actor of 30 Days In Atlanta, which is named in the Guinness
World Records 2017 as Nollywood’s highest domestic grossing film said: “I
applaud Delta for bringing Nollywood to a new global audience. Our films are
already popular in Africa but I’m looking forward to more film fans becoming
lifelong Nollywood fans too.”

Delta’s
in-flight entertainment system, Delta Studio™, more than 1,000 hours of
entertainment, including up to 300 movies, 750 TV shows, 100 foreign film
titles, 2,400 songs, 18 channels of live satellite TV on select aircraft and a
selection of games, podcasts, and audiobooks. Entertainment can also be watched
in the palm of your hands thanks to on-demand Wi-Fi available on all flights,
enabling a selection of films to be streamed to laptops as well as mobile and
tablet devices.

Delta
flies to four points in Africa, Accra, Ghana, Dakar, Senegal and Johannesburg,
South Africa as well as Lagos, Nigeria. It also has sales offices in a number
of additional markets, including Kenya and Uganda.

Delta Air Lines Brings a Touch of Nollywood to the Air ...Popular Films Available Free of Charge on Flights from Nigeria
Reviewed by Oluwaseun Bello
on
February 03, 2017
Rating: 5